Birdsville Next September

Hi Ray, It's a great stage of life when you get to "dunworkin" as long as the health is good.
We are looking forward to Birdsville, might see you in the crowd, we will be easy to spot, we will be the sober ones!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers

D

Ray,
Im dunworkin all the time.Can Deb and I come too.
Cheers,
Bigmark.

I have just come through Walkers crossing and found it pretty easy going but caravans and trailers are not recommended. It took about 6 hours from Birdsville to Innaminka 4 hours on the Walkers crossing track with stops and lunch. It's a real pretty drive and by far the best and quickest route between the two towns. The track passes through private property for most of the way so I don't think you can camp on the way.

Hi cuffs, thanks for the followup. At this stage we are going up through Roxby Downs, Maree and back through Innamincka, sounds like we will have to do a bit of research on Walkers Crossing.

Cheers

D

I have just come back from the horseless Birdsville races this year and I agree with Terry. Plan on bush camping out of town a couple of kms. there is room for thousands of campers. The council even grade tracks along the Diamantina river and dump piles of firewood and have skip bins strategically placed for rubbish disposal. You would be best to have your own toilet facilities but if not showers and toilets are available in birdsville for a small fee. It was very impressive how organised and orderly the whole thing was. They declare a two block zone around the pub basically as a drinking/lawless zone where anything goes but outside that area the cops have a presence with breathalysers and speed cameras. The race track is about 5 kms out of town so the best is to use the commuter busses for a gold coin donation rather than run the gauntlet with the cops. They were even breathalysing at 6 am in the morning!

Terry
Out at Big Red would be my choice

Hi Terry, Thanks for the information, I sort of had that feeling that that would be the case, we will be camping and are pretty well self sufficient, no problems there.

Hi Graham, thanks for your input, we are planning to get there a week before the races so hopefully we will find a pretty good spot.
We will probably leave the buses for the ones who may need them as we won't be bothered by the constabulary, 6am in the morning I will probably be still trying to sleep, ha ha ha

Cheers

D

Hi Doug, things going well here, tell Dusty that Simba is doing just fine, we have really got our hopes up with her recovery.

Sounds awfully cold where you are, not our cup of tea, we like the warm climates.

You mentioned above about Big Red, how far out of Birdsville is Big Red? is there a camping ground or something there? Don't know anything about that area at all, anywhere outside of WA/SA we know absolutely nothing except what we research and read about but we plan to change that.

Cheers

Deanna

Good to hear Simba is OK ,
Big Red is about 31klm as the bird flies from Town, Just my way of saying I don't being crowded , and I would go out there too, I love the Isolation, There is a little picnic table and seats set amid the gibbers and that's the limit for a Caravan

Thanks for that Doug, we are not crowd people either, we get out there for the quiet life, to hear the birds sing and watch the wildlife of all forms go by, the scenery out there far out stages all the man made 'attractions' but having said that it is also nice to get home for a while.

Cheers

Deanna

Big Red is the busiest street in town during race week. Every man and his dog want to have a go at it! Not the place to camp unless you like the sound of roaring diesels and swearing rev heads.

tessa

Thanks for that, sounds like a trip out there before the rush to me. I am starting to think of a camp on the River, how are the crocs out there?????

Cheers

D

Crocs...Oh the Crocs , yeh ..well they have a ball at Race time, with all the campers and Dogs camped near the River it's LUNCH TIME

Our Simba has only got three legs, surely the crocs would have sympathy for her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Geez I can see a lot of planning for camping coming up

Cheers

D

Dunworkin Doug's pulling your legs, B's in the middle of the desert so all you need to watch out for are the 2 legged sharks.

Thanks Duncan, I realised what Doug T was up to by the tone of his reply. LOL
I'm not sure what is out there so was just checking.

Cheers

D

Dunworkin
No Crocs there, The nearest Croc would be 880 / 900 klm to Burketown,What you will get is Flies,Flies,Flies, and more Flies, with a mixture of every other type of bloody insect known if it rains , Now putting the bugs aside ....and the hords of humans, Paradise is a waiting you , I just love the Channel Country, There is no doubt you and Simba will have a ball , something that will remain etched in your mind forever, And right now I am not joking,

Doug

Hi Doug, I did have a feeling that you were kidding. lol
The flies we thought might be quite bad out there but we do have nets.
Thanks for the info, we have plenty of time to put it all together.

Cheers

D